India Oxygen Export Rose Over 700% In January 2021 vs 2020 Amid Pandemic

In the financial year 2020, only 4,500 metric tonnes of oxygen were exported but inexplicably, it was doubled since.

In the huge surge in the second wave of Covid that has seen more cases of breathlessness and a demand for oxygen, the oxygen exports from India doubled, government data reveals. Between April 2020 and January 2021, India exported over 9,000 metric tonnes of oxygen.  In the financial year 2020, only 4,500 metric tonnes of oxygen were exported but inexplicably, it was doubled since. From January 2020, when India was exporting 352 metric tonnes of oxygen, the exports increased by a staggering 734 per cent in January 2021.